New Privacy Policy and Terms of Use for the BIMCO Shipping KPI

Summer is coming and there are more upcoming Shipping KPI workshops on the horizon. We have planned a number of events at different locations and we are looking forward to seeing you there.

Information about these future events and registration will be announced on the BIMCO homepage and local owner and managers will receive invitations directly.

New Privacy Policy and Terms of Use for the BIMCO Shipping KPI

Please note that due to the forthcoming EU General Data Protection Regulation on 25 May 2018 BIMCO has updated the Privacy Policy and aligned the terms of use for all our products including the BIMCO Shipping KPI.

The updated versions must be read and accepted at first login after publication on the www.shipping-kpi.org.

About Shipping KPI system – Role management

Role management is a function to manage role and accessibilities within the Shipping KPI system. This function allows account managers to limit some users in their own companies to see just a certain set of SPIs, KPIs, PIs, META data and CUSTOM fields. Furthermore, the function can help users to hide some SPIs, KPIs, PIs, META data or CUSTOM fields that they would not like to see when entering data and benchmarking.

Account manager can access role management by selecting “My Company” as in the picture below. In “My Company” section, account managers can create roles, modify roles and edit permissions for each role.

Role management is a concept to give users or account manager more control when using Shipping KPIs system and work towards their favourable. In general, role concept includes four main functions: preconfigured global roles, managing roles, assigning role to users and access requests management. For more information and detailed guide in role concept, please go to this link: https://www.shipping-kpi.org/public/downloads/documentation/Role_Concept.pdf#?kpiProfileId=1

BIMCO Shipping KPI launch events continue

In the series of BIMCO Shipping KPI relaunch events, the next stop will be Hamburg (Germany). As the same as previous event, there will be a presentation and demonstration about new or updated features in the Shipping KPI system. The event is free and you can register for it through the links below:

There will be more KPI launch events and KPI system demonstrations planned to be held in at a number of locations. Information about these future events and registration will be announced on the BIMCO homepage and local owner and managers will receive invitations directly.

About Shipping KPI system – Benchmarking tips

The benchmarking information is responsive and easy to interact with. By clicking one of those columns in the bar chart, you can get the breakdown data from it. The breakdown can be narrowed down to PI level, so it will be easy for you to track down which lower-level value directly affect the higher-level value. Below is the illustration of an example on SPI005 – Operational Performance (all of the data is for testing and not real):

1. Choose a column that you want breakdown information (the column will change colour to yellow):

2. The breakdown information will be shown below it:

3. You can keep clicking the bar until it reaches lowest level which is PI:

Shipping KPI relaunched in Cyprus

BIMCO relaunched Shipping KPI after two years of redesign. We’ve redefined KPI’s, PI’s, SPI’s and ship attributes to conform with industry standards. We’ve also made the tool more user-friendly and improved the validity of the data for example by removing invalid IMO-numbers from the database.

The BIMCO Shipping KPI relaunch events in Cyprus and Copenhagen were successful and attended by current and potential users of the Shipping KPI system.

We hope the new features, and the increased communication about Shipping KPI, will bring in a lot of new users and make the system even more robust and valuable to all users. The goal is to have more than 10,000 ships in the database.

Forthcoming KPI launch event is to be held in London Wednesday 21/3. The event is free but required registration through the links below:Wednesday 21/3 - http://bit.ly/2osNgEj

There will be more KPI launch events and KPI system demonstrations in several locations in Europe and Asia throughout the year. Information about these future events and registration will be announced on the BIMCO homepage and local owners and managers will receive invitations directly.

On April 1 the changes will be implemented to the system.

Key changes in the Shipping KPI system

The shipping KPI standards were updated and revised. You should still report the results for 2017 in version 2.6. If you are interested in the new format, you can select version 3.0, as shown below:

For 2018, you should report in version 3.0. You need to familiarise yourself with the new version, as there are many differences between version 2.6 and 3.0. This includes the definition of KPIs, PIs, SPIs and ship attributes.

Monthly random shipping KPI – KPI015

KPI015: Health and Safety deficiencies

This KPI expresses the ratio between health and safety related deficiencies (raised during external inspections and audits) and the total number of recorded external inspections and audits. External audits include non-conformities but exclude observations.

Updated Shipping KPI system

On 26 February 2018, the BIMCO Shipping KPI be relaunched and a number of updates and revisions will be released. Please note that from 2 April 2018, it will be possible to report under the new revised system for the first quarter of 2018.

The changes in the Shipping KPI system include; updated KPI standards that include the revised SPIs, KPIs, PIs and ship attributes; and the KPI profiles’ feature will have a sector-specific area for easier reporting in the Shipping KPI system.

As mentioned in last month’s KPI news, the single sign on via the BIMCO homepage has been implemented. To improve security in the Shipping KPI system, BIMCO will send the user an email if any login activity is different to the usual login location for a user.

In the future, “My Ships” will have a KPI standard version tag providing an overview for the users on which version of the system the quarterly report was produced under. This function also gives an overview of past and future changes and versions in the KPI standard.

The relaunch event on 26 February will be held in Limassol, Cyprus and the event is free, but you will need to register to guarantee a place.

Monthly random shipping KPI – KPI006

KPI006: Condition of class

This KPI expresses the company’s ability to avoid conditions of class. The KPI counts the total number of conditions of class issued by class (ref. IACS). All categories of conditions of class are weighted equally. KPI006 is measured in 'Conditions of class'.

Shipping KPI relaunch in February

BIMCO Shipping KPI welcomes in the new year with the expectation that the many changes that will be launched will really help to improve the whole Shipping KPI system and the user experience. As mentioned in the Shipping KPI November news, the single sign on feature has been implemented and will be ready shortly. When the feature is launched, BIMCO members, who already have a Shipping KPI account, will be able to log in automatically to the BIMCO Shipping KPI site when log in on the BIMCO homepage.

BIMCO acquired the shipping KPI system in 2015 and has been working hard to improve the user experience, streamlining the definitions and developing a set core of KPIs while ensuring the highest level of data security., On 26 February 2018, BIMCO will hold a relaunch event for the BIMCO Shipping KPI in Cyprus, introducing the updated and improved Shipping KPI system. The event is free for registered guests but you will need to register. Register here: http://bit.ly/2C6Pa7l

Monthly random shipping KPI – KPI015

KPI015: Health and safety deficiencies

This KPI expresses the company’s ability to avoid health and safety related deficiencies recorded during external inspections and audits. The KPI counts the number of health and safety related deficiencies including any substandard act, practice or condition (such as misplaced life buoys or fire hoses) recorded during external inspections and audits. The number of deficiencies is then made relative to the total number of external inspections.KPI015 is measured in 'Deficiencies/Inspection'.

Data protection & privacy

The Shipping KPI system requires a registered account to access different functions and is available to ship managers and shipowners. Therefore, user accounts will be protected by individual account login requirements. In order to guarantee high quality data, anonymous user registrations will no longer be valid and if you want to continue, you will need to have your account verified by BIMCO.

In the Shipping KPI System, “accounts” represent companies, ie. shipowners, ship managers or other maritime related corporations. An account has a representative that manages the account for the whole company in the Shipping KPI System and:

each user belongs to just one account

ship-related data is stored by account (the so called owning account)

individual ship data can only be accessed by users of the owning account

each account has at least one account manager as a central point of contact.

In general, the individual ship data of an account is only available to the account owner and other users within the same account. This ensures that users outside of that organisation cannot access their individual ship data.. Security and data protection are an integral part the shipping KPI system and there are many technical measures implemented to ensure the safety and security for both Shipping KPI users and the system itself. BIMCO will continue to work with the community and other experts to make the Shipping KPI System as safe as possible by applying all available upgrades to the software and system. Monthly random shipping KPI – KPI029

KPI029: Security deficiencies

This KPI shows the ship manager’s security performance - measured by the number of deficiencies recorded during external inspections and audits.

The KPI counts the number of security-related deficiencies including any sub-standard act, practice or condition (such as lack of compliance to the ISPS code) recorded during external inspections and audits. The number of deficiencies is then relative to the total number of external inspections and audits.

New feature will be implemented shortly

BIMCO Shipping KPI will shortly be implementing a new feature that means you will already be signed in to the KPI system when you log on to www.bimco.org. This feature marks an official merger of the BIMCO homepage and BIMCO Shipping KPI website – something that BIMCO members have been asking for - the main users of the Shipping KPI system.

When this feature is launched, BIMCO members who already have a Shipping KPI account will be logged in automatically to the site when they are on the BIMCO homepage. However, anyone signing in via the Shipping KPI website, will be automatically redirected to the BIMCO homepage. In the future, there will be more features added to support BIMCO members in the registration process.

Monthly random shipping KPI – KPI011

KPI011: Environmental deficiencies

This KPI expresses the company’s environmental performance by measuring environmental-related deficiencies recorded during external inspections and audits.

The KPI counts the number of environment-related deficiencies - including any substandard act, practice or condition of an environmental consequence (local regulations and MARPOL) such as failure in the oily water separator, recorded during external inspections and audits. The number of deficiencies are expressed relative to the total number of external inspections and audits.KPI011 is measured in 'deficiencies/inspection'.

BIMCO Shipping KPI development and status

The BIMCO Shipping Expert group is currently working on the last part of the update of the BIMCO Shipping KPI System and standards, as well as improving the user interface. The plan is to implement and release the updated BIMCO Shipping KPI in the first quarter of 2018.

If you are not a BIMCO Shipping KPI user or if you haven’t signed up for KPI news, please visit https://www.shipping-kpi.org/news and subscribe on the top left corner of the screen.

The Expert Group is currently, among other things, reviewing and updating the Shipping Performance Indexes (SPI) in order to give a review of the Performance Indicators (PI) and the Key Performance Indicators (KPI) carried out over the past two years.

One of the next improvements for BIMCO member users, is that access to www.shipping-kpi.org will be via the BIMCO website www.bimco.org, so sign in will be easier. This function is due to be introduced later this year.

Monthly random shipping KPI – KPI005

KPI005: CO2 efficiency

This KPI expresses the energy efficiency of the ship by comparing emitted mass of CO2 to the ship’s total transport work.

The expression gives the emitted mass of CO2 per tonne cargo transported one mile. As the PI Value ’Emitted Mass CO2’ is given in tonnes, the figure is multiplied by 1 million to get the KPI value in g/transport work (tonne mile, passenger mile, TEU mile, etc).

About Shipping KPIs data entry

Importing a CSV file is done by accessing the Import section in “My Ships” but manually adding ship information must be done in the My Ships page.

Using a CSV file format is convenient for uploading a lot of ship data from one quarter of the year. However currently, the Shipping KPI only supports two specific formats of CSV – one row per ship and one column per ship.

The CSV can be easily created using Excel. This section is a short guide on creating the file and uploading it into the Shipping KPIs database.

CSV (one row per ship) - The first header lists the key data (PI001, KPI007, etc) to be exported. The second header contains the full description of the data item. Each row following contains the data of a single ship.

CSV (one column per ship) - This time the data is in columns. The first header column contains the key data and the second header column contains the description of the data item. Each row following contains the data of a single ship.

The header should be readable such as - META data is META001 to META023 and for PIs - PI001 to PI064. After inputting relevant information, click File -> Save As -> CSV.

For uploading the file to Shipping KPIs database - go to the Import section of My Ships.

Monthly random shipping KPI – KPI032

KPI032: Ship availability

This KPI expresses the company’s ability to minimize unplanned unavailability. The KPI calculates the ship utilization as a percentage of the total utilization of time available. KPI032 is measured in '%'.

Account Management – explanation about account and strategic business units

Data Protection & Privacy – overall view about Shipping KPIs security and technical information on how it works

As an example on how Help Q&A section is useful when you use the Shipping KPIs system, this part will clarify with some specific examples.

Foremost, the login problem can be eased by using some hints from “Registration & Login” that is using Lost your password functions then the system will send you an email with a reset password link. Secondly, entering data manually on the system is available and not troublesome when common issues has been covered by the Help Q&A such as dealing with period incomplete vessel information and ship information management. Thirdly, as mention in previous Shipping KPIs monthly news, basic information of KPI Profiles and how it works has been clearly explained by this section.

The Help section is good for new users to Shipping KPIs system as well as any user would like to have a quick answer to common questions. If these information are not relevant with your issues, you can easily contact Shipping KPIs by clicking “Contact Us” in Help or About page.

Monthly random shipping KPI – KPI004

KPI004: Cargo related incidents

This KPI expresses the company’s ability to contribute to incidents-free cargo operations and carriage.

The KPI counts the number of incidents as recorded in the company's internal incidents reports. The KPI includes but is not limited to the following incidents:

Please email all other comments and questions to Peter Lundahl Rasmussen: plr@bimco.org.

About BIMCO's Shipping KPI System

It has 64 different indicators

Provides an accurate comparison of ships

Has anonymised data

Boosts performance improvements

Ship/fleet/industry benchmarking

The Steering Group: has a direct reporting line to BIMCO's Executive Committee and is responsible for defining and adhering to the Shipping KPI's vision and mission as well as maintaining the overall business case for the system.

The Expert Group: reports to the steering group and is responsible for ensuring that the Shipping KPI System is continuously developed and fulfills both current and future needs of its users.

July172017

Benchmarking features

As most users know benchmarking is the main feature of BIMCO Shipping KPIs However, there are tips and tricks, which can help you use the benchmarking function more efficiently. The most important point is the benchmarking criteria, which are created by your own selections. Please see the example below, which illustrates how to benchmark a container ship with the age range of 0 – 5 years against one with the age range of 10 – 14 years.

From BIMCO Shipping KPIs homepage choose Benchmark

On the Benchmarking pages, click the bottom left blue box

Click 'Add another filter' and choose Age range

Select relevant criteria: Time period (All quarters), Which Ships (All Ships), Ship type (Container Ship), Age Range (Below 5 Years). Other fields should be as default.

Choose the bottom right dark blue box to update criteria for the data, with which you want to compare.

Repeat steps 3 to 5 to finish the whole benchmarking criteria selection but this time the Age Range must be 10 – 14 years.

Finally, you will get a graph similar to the picture below:

Hints:

BIMCO Shipping KPI has an interactive users’ environment, which means you can click on any of the KPIs to obtain more information.

In addition to the benchmarking feature, BIMCO Shipping KPI allows you to generate a report by choosing PDF Report box on the top right of the page. By clicking OK after that, the report will be downloaded automatically to your computer.

Monthly random shipping KPI – KPI003

KPI003: Cadets per ship

This KPI expresses the company’s efforts to take on new cadets. The KPI shows the ratio between the total number of cadets under training with the Ship Management company over the total number of ships under technical management (ships for which the Ship Manager holds the DOC), basically the average number of cadets per ship under technical management. KPI003 is measured in 'Cadets/Ship'.

Please email all other comments and questions to Peter Lundahl Rasmussen: plr@bimco.org.

About BIMCO's Shipping KPI System

It has 64 different indicators

Provides an accurate comparison of ships

Has anonymised data

Boosts performance improvements

Ship/fleet/industry benchmarking

The Steering Group: has a direct reporting line to BIMCO's Executive Committee and is responsible for defining and adhering to the Shipping KPI's vision and mission as well as maintaining the overall business case for the system.

The Expert Group: reports to the steering group and is responsible for ensuring that the Shipping KPI System is continuously developed and fulfills both current and future needs of its users.

June192017

KPI profile feature

A KPI profile is a set of performance indicators (PI) reporting items that are used to calculate and generate the chosen KPIs of a user. The concept of a KPI profile is to provide a customised selection of a ship’s KPI performance, thus reducing the amount of required data entered by users to match their benchmarking preferences.One of the main benefits of the KPI profile is the individual visual presentation of a ship’s KPI benchmarking performance.

KPIs are divided into primary and secondary groups

Users can also define the grouping and ordering of the PIs making data entry easier

The BIMCO Shipping KPI system PDF benchmarking reports use the KPI profile to show the result of the ship’s or fleet’s performance

In addition to primary KPIs, there are also secondary KPIs which can be customised to users’ needs

User/manager is the only one who has permission to select, change or assign a KPI profile to a Document of Compliance (DOC) holder .

The KPI Profile is an important feature to promote customisation for shipping KPIs. The Expert group plans to upgrade this feature further by adapting it to ship type in the near future.

Monthly random shipping KPI – KPI031

KPI031: Training days per officer

This KPI highlights the company’s commitment to maintaining and enhancing officers’ competence. The KPI represents the ratio between the ship manager’s efforts in training over the total number of officer working days, basically the average number of training days per officer day at sea. KPI031 is measured in 'Days/Officer'.

For more information:

Please email all other comments and questions to Peter Lundahl Rasmussen: plr@bimco.org.

About BIMCO's Shipping KPI System

It has 64 different indicators

Provides an accurate comparison of ships

Has anonymised data

Boosts performance improvements

Ship/fleet/industry benchmarking

The Steering Group: has a direct reporting line to BIMCO's Executive Committee and is responsible for defining and adhering to the Shipping KPI's vision and mission as well as maintaining the overall business case for the system.

The Expert Group: reports to the steering group and is responsible for ensuring that the Shipping KPI System is continuously developed and fulfils both current and future needs of its users.

May192017

About Shipping KPIs

As promised to all KPI users, Shipping KPI has been developing and changing to maximise benefit to the user. From mid-May, there will be many new initiatives and changes in the user interface, especially for the “My Ships” section.

The changes in the My Ships overview page makes the user interface easier to manage.

As shown in the above picture, the “Add Ship” part has been changed and there are coloured boxes as error indicators for each ship input.

The new password notification mechanism has been changed too, to make it more secure for the users. Now in the notification email, the password is not shown but there is a link for the user to create a new password. In addition, the website now has a cookie policy with a banner at the bottom of the page. The BIMCO Shipping KPI website uses cookies to improve the user’s experience.

Monthly random shipping KPIs - KPI009: Crew planning

KPI009: Crew planning

This KPI expresses the company’s ability to relieve crew on time as well as avoiding violations of rest hours regulations. The KPI counts the number of breaches to prevailing regulations or agreements. KPI009 is measured in 'Breaches'.

KPI009 Value calculation example

Please email all other comments and questions to Peter Lundahl Rasmussen: plr@bimco.org.

About BIMCO's Shipping KPI System

It has 64 different indicators

Provides an accurate comparison of ships

Has anonymised data

Boosts performance improvements

Ship/fleet/industry benchmarking

The Steering Group: has a direct reporting line to BIMCO's Executive Committee and is responsible for defining and adhering to the Shipping KPI's vision and mission as well as maintaining the overall business case for the system.

The Expert Group: reports to the steering group and is responsible for ensuring that the Shipping KPI System is continuously developed and fulfills both current and future needs of its users.

April192017

Features of My Ships

On behalf of BIMCO Shipping KPI, thank you for your participation in our KPI survey. We appreciate all of your comments and suggestions. The Shipping KPI survey is still available and if you haven’t answered the questionnaire yet, we would really encourage you to particpate so we can make necessary improvements to the Shipping KPI system.

Things you might not know about shipping KPIs - My Ships

Copying information from a previous quarter

In the “My Ships” section, as announced in the January news, there is a new option which allows you to copy ship information from the previous quarter. To access this feature, in “My Ships” choose “Copy from ------(the period depending on the quarter you choose then minus one)” - see demonstrated below- because the “Quarter” is chosen as “2016-Q4” so the “Copy from” box is shown as “Copy from 2016-Q3”.

After choosing the “Copy from” box, there will be a pop-up window to ask whether you agree to copy fleet data from the previous quarter. If there is nothing wrong, click “OK” to proceed otherwise click “Cancel”. After clicking “OK”, there will be a notification line to announce how the copying function is processed.

Exporting report from My Ships

In the My Ships section, besides importing and exporting data, you can also download a PDF report about the ships that you have submitted into the system.

After clicking My Ships, you will enter the My Ships section. Here you select which quarter you want then click Report. When you click the Report box, a pop-up window will appear. You can use this pop-up window to make changes to your report such as which ships, or what type of information you want the report to include. Once you are satisfied with your choices, click OK and then the report PDF file will start to download automatically.

Monthly random shipping KPIs - KPI033: Vetting deficiencies

This KPI expresses the ship manager’s ability to avoid deficiencies and negative observations from vetting inspections. The KPI counts the number of deficiencies (including any substandard act, practice or condition) and negative observations, recorded during vetting inspections. The number of deficiencies and negative observations are then made relative to the total number of vetting inspections. KPI033 is measured in 'Deficiencies/Inspection'.

Please email all other comments and questions to Peter Lundahl Rasmussen: plr@bimco.org.

About BIMCO's Shipping KPI System

It has 64 different indicators

Provides an accurate comparison of ships

Has anonymised data

Boosts performance improvements

Ship/fleet/industry benchmarking

The Steering Group: has a direct reporting line to BIMCO's Executive Committee and is responsible for defining and adhering to the Shipping KPI's vision and mission as well as maintaining the overall business case for the system.

The Expert Group: reports to the steering group and is responsible for ensuring that the Shipping KPI System is continuously developed and fulfils both current and future needs of its users.

March202017

Shipping KPI Survey

Shipping KPIs receives a lot of support and consideration from the maritime industry. As of today, we nearly count 300 active accounts and therefore, we would like to hear your opinion about the system and what kind of improvements you would like to see in the future.

It focuses mainly on using shipping KPIs in ship management and your feedback is invaluable. Your answers will be analysed for further improvements to the shipping KPIs.

This survey will also be used for a Master thesis about the user's perspective on the impact of using shipping KPIs in ship management. Therefore, I am looking forward to your responses as the data needs to be finalised before the end of March 2017.

Thank you for your consideration and support. If there are any queries or issues related to this questionnaire, please do not hesitate contact me on vl@bimco.org(Ms. Vy Le – Junior assistant Shipping KPI).

Things you might not know

Ship “attributes” are used for filtering during benchmarking and grouping in statistical analysis. Similar to “performance Indicators” all ship attributes are collected per ship per quarter. In total, we now have 23 ship attributes with “META023: Ship Status” as a new addition.

“META023: Ship Status” reflects the operational condition of the ship on the final day of the quarter. META023 has three possible ship statuses, including, in service, laid up and broken up. This attribute helps classify whether a ship is ready to carry out its duties during the reporting period. The “Ship attributes” feature is part of the plan to improve on existing features but also add where required. BIMCO Shipping KPI will continue to add new attributes or revised versions in the future. In addition to ship classification, more attributes will be added to filter criteria in the benchmarking feature very soon.

Monthly random shipping KPI

KPI024: Operational deficiencies

This KPI expresses the company’s ability to avoid operational related deficiencies recorded during external inspections and audits.

The KPI counts the number of operational related deficiencies including any sub-standard act, practice or condition (not including HR-, security-, health and safety- and environmental deficiencies) recorded during external inspections and audits. The number of deficiencies is then made relative to the total number of external inspections. KPI024 is measured in 'Deficiencies/Inspection'.

Please email all other comments and questions to Peter Lundahl Rasmussen: plr@bimco.org.

About BIMCO's Shipping KPI System

It has 64 different indicators

Provides an accurate comparison of ships

Has anonymised data

Boosts performance improvements

Ship/fleet/industry benchmarking

The Steering Group: has a direct reporting line to BIMCO's Executive Committee and is responsible for defining and adhering to the Shipping KPI's vision and mission as well as maintaining the overall business case for the system.

The Expert Group: reports to the steering group and is responsible for ensuring that the Shipping KPI System is continuously developed and fulfils both current and future needs of its users.

More features that make the process easier

About Shipping KPI

The “My Company” section now has new KPI profile features that are more convenient for users grouping KPIs according to use.

This new feature can be accessed by choosing “My Company” then “KPI profiles” as seen in screenshot above.

You can then select default or create your own KPI Profile. The Shipping-KPI system already has a default or built-in KPI Profile, which can be chosen from the tick box. If you want to customise your own KPI profile, you can select the ”Create New” box then input profile title and select KPIs that you want to include. Furthermore, you can ”Edit” the KPI profile information or reselect KPIs to make adjustments to suit your needs. The ”Duplicate” box is similar to a copy function, so you can duplicate selected KPI profiles. All of these changes have been added to make the process more user friendly.

Things you might not know

The Shipping KPI has 5183 registered ships in total from around the world. And these numbers are increasing as the Shipping KPI gains a new member every month. The variety and number of ships in the pool, means benchmarking and report will be more accurate and useful for users. BIMCO and the Shipping KPI actively support users and we will help you through any issues as much as we can. Please don’t hesitate to contact us: https://www.shipping-kpi.org/about/contact

Monthly random Shipping KPI

KPI023: Officers experience rate

This rate expresses the percentile experience of the officers currently onboard the ship based on 12 months of experience at 100%. Each officer, currently onboard, is assigned “experience” points according to a predefined scale. The maximum number of experience points per officer is 4 (equals 12 months sailing time with the same shipmanager). Any experience above 12 months sailing time is disregarded. The KPI023 is measured in 'experience points/officer'. KPI023 depends on: PI040 - number of officer experience points ; PI043 - number of officers onboard.

Please email all other comments and questions to Peter Lundahl Rasmussen: plr@bimco.org.

About BIMCO's Shipping KPI System

It has 64 different indicators

Provides an accurate comparison of ships

Has anonymised data

Boosts performance improvements

Ship/fleet/industry benchmarking

The Steering Group: has a direct reporting line to BIMCO's Executive Committee and is responsible for defining and adhering to the Shipping KPI's vision and mission as well as maintaining the overall business case for the system.

The Expert Group: reports to the steering group and is responsible for ensuring that the Shipping KPI System is continuously developed and fulfils both current and future needs of its users.

January192017

New features are now online

Published 1 year ago
by George Michail
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Updated 20 January 2017 12:30:25 by
George Michail
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About Shipping KPIPerformance indicator standards, including definition and examples, have been revised and published in a new format which is more structured and readable. The Shipping KPI website has been updated with new functions in the “My Ships” and “My Company” sections. This function has been tested and officially updated on 9 January and you can now see what was reported in the previous quarter in “My Ship” and the list of ships in the “My Company” section.

More updates currently being implemented and published on the www.shipping-kpi.org will be presented in more detail at a later stage.

The KPI Expert Group had a successful meeting in Copenhagen from 11-12 January, discussing and revising Key performance indicators’ (KPI’s) standards. In addition to working on new KPIs for the future. The Shipping KPI will continuously develop to have a more user-friendly, practical and favourable working interface.

This KPI expresses the company’s ability to safeguard crew against injuries and fatalities. The KPI counts the number of lost time injuries (LTI) among the crew per million exposure hours. Exposure hours are 24 hours per day while serving on board. Note that injuries during spare-time on board are also included. LTI is the sum of fatalities, permanent total disabilities, permanent partial disabilities and lost workdays. The term ’crew’ refers to any person being part of the ship’s staff (eg officers, ratings, cadets, superintendents). The same complement is also used as a basis for calculating the total exposure hours.KPI017 is measured in 'incidents/million hours'.

Please email all other comments and questions to Peter Lundahl Rasmussen: plr@bimco.org.

About BIMCO's Shipping KPI System

It has 64 different indicators

Provides an accurate comparison of ships

Has anonymised data

Boosts performance improvements

Ship/fleet/industry benchmarking

The Steering Group: has a direct reporting line to BIMCO's Executive Committee and is responsible for defining and adhering to the Shipping KPI's vision and mission as well as maintaining the overall business case for the system.

The Expert Group: reports to the steering group and is responsible for ensuring that the Shipping KPI System is continuously developed and fulfils both current and future needs of its users.

December162016

Integrate your system with Shipping KPIs

Published 1 year ago
by George Michail
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Updated 19 December 2016 11:24:55 by
George Michail
]

BIMCO Shipping KPI wishes you season's greetings for a happy and prosperous new year.

In 2016, the Shipping KPI improved through you, the user, and we thank you for your active support and information. We now have more than 5150 ships listed in the BIMCO Shipping KPI. Your contribution is of huge worth to future Shipping KPIs developments. The BIMCO Shipping KPI had a revised vision and mission from BIMCO, with a well-defined scope and targets. KPI expert groups were actively involved in reviewing and revising PIs with many discussions and meetings to make PIs easier to understand and use.

This year was also a change for BIMCO with a total rebrand including new logo, vision and mission and the launch of the new BIMCO website. We are looking forward to 2017 with more support from Shipping KPI users and BIMCO members and the launch of a new integrated system, better PI and KPI definitions and more. See you for a promising 2017!

The revised PI definitions will be published and ready for guidance and reference at the end December 2016 or early January 2017.

Things you might not know - Integrate your system with the Shipping KPI

The Shipping-KPI Application Programming Interface (API) allows third-party developers to incorporate Shipping-KPI data with their applications. Integrating your applications with the Shipping-KPI using our API, gives your own internal applications the ability to submit ship's data automatically, as well as using any statistics you can perform on the benchmark page. You can integrate from many platforms including websites, desktop and mobile applications (IOS, Android, Windows).

The KPI counts the number of times where port state control inspections are conducted without any deficiency being reported and divides this number by the total number of port state control inspections conducted during the same period.KPI014 is measured in 'flawless inspections/inspections'. KPI014 is depending on: PI049 - Number of PSC inspections, PI051 - Number of PSC inspections resulting in zero deficiencies.

Please email all other comments and questions to Peter Lundahl Rasmussen: plr@bimco.org.

About BIMCO's Shipping KPI System

It has 64 different indicators

Provides an accurate comparison of ships

Has anonymised data

Boosts performance improvements

Ship/fleet/industry benchmarking

The Steering Group: has a direct reporting line to BIMCO's Executive Committee and is responsible for defining and adhering to the Shipping KPI's vision and mission as well as maintaining the overall business case for the system.

The Expert Group: reports to the steering group and is responsible for ensuring that the Shipping KPI System is continuously developed and fulfils both current and future needs of its users.

November182016

Rate your fleet in full colour

About Shipping KPI feature

Colouring mean in my ship: You will notice several colours on the “My Ships” page. These are to give you a quick overview of where the given fleet for this quarter stands. If a KPI rating for a ship is 0% then it is marked as red, at 50% rating it assumes yellow and if it's a 100% rating it’s green. Ratings in between have a varied colour.

The above explanation is based on having your base rating set at 50%. Using the colour legend, you can change the rating you consider average for your company. For example, if you want to be aggressive you can set your base rating at 70%. This means that KPI ratings below 70% will be coloured with a variant between red and yellow and anything above 70% will take a variant between green and yellow.

Additional to the above variance we have two more colour indications. Black means that a KPI rating could not be calculated due to missing PI data. If a KPI rating could not be calculated for whatever reason other than missing data, then it is marked grey. For example, with the HR deficiencies KPI (KPI016), if there hasn’t been an external inspection that means that this KPI rating could not be calculated.

Things you might not know

BIMCO will provide the Shipping KPI system free of charge to existing BIMCO owner members and full InterManager members - except for a one-time nominal set-up fee the first time a member uses the system.

For all newly registered member companies of BIMCO or InterManager who would like to use the KPI System a one-time setup fee will be included.

Companies falling outside of the above-mentioned categories will retain continued use of the system (subject to agreement). However, an annual subscription fee and set-up fee will be included to cover continued use.

This KPI expresses the company’s ability to avoid deficiencies issued during port state control inspections. The KPI represents a ratio between the number of reported deficiencies relative to the number of port state control inspections, as such the average number of deficiencies per inspection. By defining the KPI as a ratio, benchmarking is feasible even between ships being subject to an uneven number of port state control Inspections.

KPI026 is measured in 'deficiencies/inspection'. KPI026 depends on: PI048 number of PSC deficiencies. PI049: number of PSC inspections.

Recently, BIMCO launched a new website and logo. The new BIMCO logo reflects how important the name BIMCO itself is to members. Along with the ‘lighthouse and beam’ image in the logo which reflects BIMCO’s role in keeping watch for its members and providing guidance and leadership where needed.

Please email all other comments and questions to Peter Lundahl Rasmussen: plr@bimco.org.

About BIMCO's Shipping KPI System

It has 64 different indicators

Provides an accurate comparison of ships

Has anonymised data

Boosts performance improvements

Ship/fleet/industry benchmarking

The Steering Group: has a direct reporting line to BIMCO's Executive Committee and is responsible for defining and adhering to the Shipping KPI's vision and mission as well as maintaining the overall business case for the system.

The Expert Group: reports to the steering group and is responsible for ensuring that the Shipping KPI System is continuously developed and fulfils both current and future needs of its users.

October192016

New developments for improving usability coming soon

Numerous developments for improving the usability and reporting is currently underway and is expected to be implemented and launched over the next 3 to 6 months. Please watch out for more information in the monthly BIMCO Shipping news and in case you have not signed up to receive these monthly newsletters, please visit the BIMCO Shipping KPI News page. Click on the top right corner button “Subscribe to News” and enter your email details in the popup window.

How to use: how to submit ship figure overview

As a user of a registered company, you can log in to the Shipping KPI to submit ships. To start entering ship data, browse https://www.shipping-kpi.org. Log in by providing your username and password. Click on the “Measure” box link or the “My Ships” Menu item.

To add a ship, enter the ship’s name, IMO number, quarter and press the add button

Once you have added a ship and updated the values in the various tabs you can see the results in the detailed pages. If necessary, you can change the ship’s name by clicking on the icon next to it. The “delete” button removes the ship data of the specific quarter only so you can start entering the quarter’s data from scratch.

The Import and export functions using CSV format for reporting will be covered and explained in a later newsletter.

In June 2006, the KPI project started and until October 2008, KPIs and ratings were clearly defined. From May 2009, the KPI project went into phase 2 and at the end of 2010, the Shipping KPI Standard was officially released. In 2011, the Shipping KPI system was presented at International Maritime Organization (IMO) for a public launch. From 2012 – 2015, the Shipping KPI grew non-stop with 1000 ships in 2012 to around 4000 ships in 2015. These numbers were amazing because in just 3 years, the number of ships quadrupled. The system was originally developed by a cross-industry group and was supported by InterManager following its launch in 2011. In June 2015, ownership of the system was taken on by BIMCO, the world’s largest international shipping association, and is developed and managed by SOFTImpact.

Monthly random shipping KPI

KPI007: Contained spills

This KPI helps the company’s ability to avoid spills, not the ability to contain them.

The KPI counts the total number of contained spills, including:

contained spills that cover liquid spills including (but not limited to) cargo and bunkers contained on the ship

contained spills in secure areas such as engine rooms are not counted, only spills that could have a potential

environmental impact if not containedtotal number of spills on deck where nothing goes overboard from bulk liquids which could have an environmental impact.

The Shipping KPI is constantly growing with a steady flow of new users. We are now over the 5000-ship milestone. However, "Growth is never by mere chance; it is the result of forces working together" - James Cash Penne. With this in mind, BIMCO is always striving to improve upon and expand the information that is available so registered users can make better use of the data available to them and encourage new users to sign up.

Please email all other comments and questions to Peter Lundahl Rasmussen: plr@bimco.org.

About BIMCO's Shipping KPI System

It has 64 different indicators

Provides an accurate comparison of ships

Has anonymised data

Boosts performance improvements

Ship/fleet/industry benchmarking

The Steering Group: has a direct reporting line to BIMCO's Executive Committee and is responsible for defining and adhering to the Shipping KPI's vision and mission as well as maintaining the overall business case for the system.

The Expert Group: reports to the steering group and is responsible for ensuring that the Shipping KPI System is continuously developed and fulfils both current and future needs of its users.

September202016

5000 ships, expert group meeting and user’s tips

Published 1 year ago
by George Michail
[
Updated 20 September 2016 10:42:36 by
George Michail
]

The BIMCO Shipping KPI now has more than 5000 ships on which to benchmark your fleet! The BIMCO Shipping KPI Expert Group held its 3rd meeting in Copenhagen last week and the main topic was finalising the revision of all the definitions of the 64 PI’s. The expert group further agreed a number of recommendations to be put forward to the BIMCO Shipping KPI steering group for its approval

Sample PDF report – Benchmarking specialityBenchmarking by bar chart is one of the noticeable features of the shipping KPI. There are various ways to compare data using criteria such as age, class, ship types or even associations. The benchmarking function also creates the data as a PDF, which can be customised. The full report has all KPI descriptions, data and illustrated charts. Therefore, this function can be used to share data or for analysis. Compared to other websites, our shipping KPI benchmarking is user friendly with clear visuals to highlight information.

Things you might not know - download section in shipping-kpi.orgThe download section has useful documents for shipping KPI users. You can easily find the user manual, quick sheets, cheat sheet and comprehensive KPI definitions in this section. These files can be download directly to your computer in PDF format. The download section will have new and updated instruction files in the near future to help users get around the KPI system easily.

Monthly random shipping KPIKPI018: Lost time sickness frequencyThis KPI helps a company to measure crew sickness and fatalities while serving onboard. The KPI counts the cases of crew sickness and any fatality due to sickness over exposure hours – which are 24 hours per day while serving onboard. The term ’crew’ refers to any person being part of the ship’s staff (eg officers, ratings, cadets, superintendents). The same work force is also used as basis for calculating the total exposure hours.

KPI018 is measured in 'sick case/million hours'. KPI018 depends on: PI019 - Number of crew sick for more than 24 hours, PI031 - Number of fatalities due to sickness, PI063 - Total exposure hours.

The Shipping KPI is constantly growing with a steady flow of new users. We are now at the 5000-ship milestone. However, “Growth is never by mere chance; it is the result of forces working together” - James Cash Penne. With this in mind, BIMCO is always striving to improve on and expand the information that is available so registered users can make better use of the data available to them and encourage new users to sign up.

Please email all other comments and questions to Peter Lundahl Rasmussen: plr@bimco.org.

About BIMCO's Shipping KPI System

It has 64 different indicators

Provides an accurate comparison of ships

Has anonymised data

Boosts performance improvements

Ship/fleet/industry benchmarking

The Steering Group: has a direct reporting line to BIMCO's Executive Committee and is responsible for defining and adhering to the Shipping KPI's vision and mission as well as maintaining the overall business case for the system.

The Expert Group: reports to the steering group and is responsible for ensuring that the Shipping KPI System is continuously developed and fulfils both current and future needs of its users.

Ship managers and shipowners can register for the Shipping KPI by completing the online request form. On the top right corner of shipping-kpi homepage click on “register your company”. You will be prompted to enter your company and personal information. The registration process takes a couple of minutes to complete the 10-11 fields listed for both company and user. All mandatory fields marked with * must be filled in. Upon completing the registration process, you will receive an automatic email confirming the receipt of your request with “Application pending” in the subject box of the email sent from support@shipping-kpi.org.

The shipping KPI support team will get back to you quickly with an answer if you meet the guidelines for being part of the BIMCO Shipping KPI. Non-members will need to supply BIMCO with a ship’s “Document of Compliance” as part of the process. If your request to join is successful, you will receive an email with logging on details for a “provisional” account.

You can then login to shipping KPI by clicking “login” on the top right corner of the home page. You will be prompted to enter your email and password details. Make sure to read and accept the Privacy Policy and Terms of Service. Upon successfully logging in to the site, the information you can view is limited to what your company administrator has given you access to.

b. Things you might not know

All data entered or uploaded by you into the Shipping KPI System is owned by your company account. The system ensures that any data related to a single ship can only be viewed and accessed by users of the same account, ie. your colleagues.

Security and data protection is an integral part of the Shipping KPI System and BIMCO will continue developing to make it as safe as possible by applying all available upgrades to the software.

This KPI System expresses the company’s ability to plan a drydocking operation (eg predictable costs, good budgeting and scheduling). Basically it expresses the smallest change as a percentage that could affect any planned costs and time.

To avoid penalties, ship managers striving towards minimising the time and costs at drydock disregard any cost or time deviation between 0 and -10% as going 'according to plan'.

Please email all other comments and questions to Peter Lundahl Rasmussen: plr@bimco.org.

About BIMCO's Shipping KPI System

It has 64 different indicators

Provides an accurate comparison of ships

Has anonymised data

Boosts performance improvements

Ship/fleet/industry benchmarking

The Steering Group: has a direct reporting line to BIMCO's Executive Committee and is responsible for defining and adhering to the Shipping KPI's vision and mission as well as maintaining the overall business case for the system.

The Expert Group: reports to the steering group and is responsible for ensuring that the Shipping KPI System is continuously developed and fulfils both current and future needs of its users.

July192016

Demystifying BIMCO Shipping KPI

Published 1 year ago
by George Michail
[
Updated 20 July 2016 11:30:49 by
George Michail
]

The KPI is built by combining a set of PIs. The KPIs are expressed in two forms: The calculated KPI value and a conversion of the KPI value into a 0-100 KPI rating.

The PI is directly observable or measurable within the company (Eg, number of incidents, fuel consumption, exposure hours etc). In the Shipping KPI model over 64 PIs are currently defined.

Shipping KPI definitions will be continually improved with more specific explanations and examples in the near future.

B. Things you might not know

The shipping-kpi homepage is very user friendly and you can export and import files for viewing, sharing or editing. The benchmarking function can be visual ie, using graphics and charts.

Rating colour Legend tool – controls how results are visualized.

The Shipping KPI supports many sub users and business units. Registered users can setup as many sub users under the “My Account” function as needed and can give levels of access and rights within the user functions. Besides this, if a company has different departments operating a certain fleet segment or from different offices, the user can create “business units”.

No actual limit exists on the number of users operating at the same time.

Provisional account As soon as the company successfully passes the due diligence check ie, the BIMCO member provides their BIMCO registration number and this is approved by BIMCO, then a provisional account is created. Upon registration all new users are given a provisional account and when payment have been received then the provisional account is changed to a permanent account with full access to all functions.

C. Monthly random shipping KPIs

KPI001: Ballast water management violations

This KPI expresses the company's ability to adhere to applicable rules and regulations related to management of ballast water. The KP1001 is measured in “violations”, ie, the number of times where prevailing regulations regarding management of ballast water have been violated and recorded by an external party.

KPI001 is depending on PI015 number of ballast water management violations and used by SPI001 Environmental Performance

KPI001 Value Calculation Example

A = Number of ballast water management violations = 0

KPI Value Ballast water management violations = A = 0

The Shipping KPI is constantly growing with a steady flow of new users. However, “Growth is never by mere chance; it is the result of forces working together” - James Cash Penne. With this in mind, BIMCO is always striving to improve on and expand the information that is available so registered users can make better use of the data available to them and encourage new users to sign up.

Please email all other comments and questions to Peter Lundahl Rasmussen: plr@bimco.org.

About BIMCO's Shipping KPI System

It has 64 different indicators

Provides an accurate comparison of ships

Has anonymised data

Boosts performance improvements

Ship/fleet/industry benchmarking

The Steering Group: has a direct reporting line to BIMCO's Executive Committee and is responsible for defining and adhering to the Shipping KPI's vision and mission as well as maintaining the overall business case for the system.

The Expert Group: reports to the steering group and is responsible for ensuring that the Shipping KPI System is continuously developed and fulfils both current and future needs of its users.

June212016

Steering Group have agreed on a revised BIMCO Shipping KPI Vision and Mission

Published 1 year ago
by George Michail
[
Updated 21 June 2016 11:36:35 by
George Michail
]

BIMCO's vision for the Shipping KPI System

The BIMCO Shipping KPI System will be the preferred and trusted tool of all shipowners, operators and managers allowing them to benchmark and monitor their company, fleet and ship performance. The system will add value to the users’ businesses by highlighting opportunities to drive sustainable improvements.

Mission for the BIMCO Shipping KPI System

The BIMCO Shipping KPI System is a tool run by the industry for the industry, and therefore a trusted tool and source of information for all. Data collected will only be accessible by the data provider and will be used anonymously to avoid sensitive information being compromised. BIMCO will continuously take into account the broader needs of all potential users in the development and maintenance of the BIMCO Shipping KPI standard. The BIMCO Shipping KPI Steering group will oversee the project and ensure that its associated Expert Group fulfil current and future users’ needs. Access to the BIMCO Shipping KPI via the website

Please note that access to the BIMCO Shipping KPI as of July 2016 will be limited to data providers (owners and managers alike). BIMCO would like to take this opportunity to thank all current non-data provider users for their interest in the BIMCO Shipping KPI. We encourage all non-data providers to visit the website and subscribe to the BIMCO Shipping KPI monthly news and other notifications by clicking on the new button “Subscribe to news”.

Please note that if you are either a new user or have recently started to use the BIMCO Shipping KPI again then we have listed some key advice to get you started:

select the most interesting KPI’s for your company and report on the associated PI’s

select readily available data and information within your company

do not start reporting on all ships and PI’s in one go, add in stages

get the information and data flow structure together before expanding the reporting

the specified reporting times are in no way mandatory, merely recommendations, although a minimum of twice a year is preferable.

Please email all other comments and questions to Peter Lundahl Rasmussen: plr@bimco.org.

About BIMCO's Shipping KPI System

It has 64 different indicators

Provides an accurate comparison of ships

Has anonymised data

Boosts performance improvements

Ship/fleet/industry benchmarking

The Steering Group: has a direct reporting line to BIMCO's Executive Committee and is responsible for defining and adhering to the Shipping KPI's vision and mission as well as maintaining the overall business case for the system.

The Expert Group: reports to the steering group and is responsible for ensuring that the Shipping KPI System is continuously developed and fulfils both current and future needs of its users.

May182016

Steering Group set the course for the Expert Group and the BIMCO Shipping KPI System

Please note that over the next few months, access to the BIMCO Shipping KPI will be limited to data providers (owners and managers alike). Non-data providers will soon be able to sign up to receive BIMCO Shipping KPI news via a new feature being developed for the website.BIMCO would like to take this opportunity to thank all current non-data provider users for their interest in the BIMCO Shipping KPÍ and encourage all non-data providers to visit the website in the coming months to sign up to receive the BIMCO Shipping KPI monthly news and other notifications.

Please note that If you are either a new user or have recently started to use the BIMCO Shipping KPI again then the following is important to note:

select the most interesting KPI’s for your company and report on the associated PI’s

select readily available data and information within your company

do not start reporting on all ships and PI’s in one go, add in stages

get the information and data flow structure together before expanding the reporting

the specified reporting times are in no way mandatory, merely recommendations.

The Steering Group: has a direct reporting line to BIMCO's Executive Committee and is responsible for defining and adhering to the Shipping KPI's vision and mission as well as maintaining the overall business case for the system.

The Expert Group: reports to the steering group and is responsible for ensuring that the Shipping KPI System is continuously developed and fulfils both current and future needs of its users.

April182016

BIMCO Shipping KPI Expert Group makes good progress

Published 2 years ago
by George Michail
[
Updated 18 April 2016 09:20:37 by
Charis Ioannou
]

The Expert Group (EG) made good progress on the comprehensive review of all the 64 Performance Indicators (PI) included in the BIMCO Shipping KPI in order to provide clear and easily understandable definitions of the individual PI’s for the users. The final layout and editorials of the revised PI´s are currently being finalized.

The EG, among others, agreed on the following issues:

ship’s metadata to include the status of the ships (in service, laid up or broken up, etc.)

base all possible PIs on quarterly data, the system should then calculate rolling averages when necessary

technical solution to solve the issue of the value “0” versus a blank field in the reporting form

minimise the required manual data entries

find a solution for PI’s report on fleet level to automatically populate to the ship level

arrange transferring fleet reporting from one quarter to the next in one batch, so that the user only needs to make manual entries in case of any changes.

The EG further agreed on a number of recommendations for the BIMCO Shipping KPI Steering Group related to the future operation and use of the system. The forthcoming BIMCO Steering Group meeting planned for 10 May 2016 in Copenhagen, will consider and decide on the list of recommendations emerging from the EG meeting.

BIMCO, in connection with other engagements in Hamburg earlier this week, visited a number of BIMCO Shipping KPI users. There was a good exchange of information and comments, and BIMCO got a good response and overview of which day to day user interface problems account users can have in connection with working with the shipping-kpi.org.If you are either a new user or starting to use the BIMCO Shipping KPI again then the following is important to note:

select the most interesting KPI’s for your company and report on the associated PI’s

select readily available data and information within your company

do not necessarily start reporting on all ships and PI’s in one go

get the information and data flow structure before expanding the reporting

the specified reporting times are in no way mandatory though merely recommendations.

The Steering Group: has a direct reporting line to BIMCO's Executive Committee and is responsible for defining and adhering to the Shipping KPI's vision and mission as well as maintaining the overall business case for the system.

The Expert Group: reports to the steering group and is responsible for ensuring that the Shipping KPI System is continuously developed and fulfils both current and future needs of its users.

March092016

BIMCO Shipping KPI Expert Group meets in Copenhagen

Published 2 years ago
by George Michail
[
Updated 09 March 2016 09:44:20 by
George Michail
]

A comprehensive review of the descriptions of all the 64 Performance Indicators (PI) included in the BIMCO Shipping KPI are about to be finalised at the BIMCO Shipping KPI Expert Group meeting next week in Copenhagen.

The aim of the PI review is to clean up and provide clear and easily understandable definitions of the individual PI’s for the users.

The group will continue to work on the BIMCO Shipping KPI to meet both the owners and future users’ needs and explore potential additions of PIs and KPIs.

We expect that the expert group will agree on a number of recommendations related to the future operation and use of the system, including but not limited to:

assessment of data quality and

improved data entry processes.

All geared up for the BIMCO Shipping KPI Steering Group that will meet later this year.

The expert group’s short-term goals identified by the BIMCO Shipping KPI expert working group are to:

clean up unused and no longer needed benchmarks from the system

simplify and clarify the definitions of PIs and KPIs

extend benchmarking possibilities

share best practice in using the BIMCO Shipping KPI System

Information available on the BIMCO Shipping KPI website includes the following links; Discover, Measure, Benchmark and Integrate. All containing valuable information on what’s inside the BIMCO Shipping KPI as well as an overview of the potential reports and graphs that can be generated.

Finally, it is worth noting that there is currently a steady flow of new user registrations on the Shipping KPI website and the corresponding fleet details are also increasing. This improves the data available for performing both all-inclusive or user segmented benchmarking.

The Steering Group: has a direct reporting line to BIMCO's Executive Committee and is responsible for defining and adhering to the Shipping KPI's vision and mission as well as maintaining the overall business case for the system.

The Expert Group: reports to the steering group and is responsible for ensuring that the Shipping KPI System is continuously developed and fulfils both current and future needs of its users.

February092016

Benchmark your fleet against nearly 5000 ships

Published 2 years ago
by George Michail
[
Updated 09 February 2016 01:12:16 by
George Michail
]

Substantial work is ongoing both in terms of improving shipping-kpi.org and facilities for registered users. This, among others, include updating IT-related elements and software, including ensuring that the data security of the BIMCO Shipping KPI is kept at its highest at all times in order to protect the users data, ensure anonymity and maintain confidentiality in terms of enlisted ships and their performance.

BIMCO Shipping KPI gives users the opportunity to benchmark their fleet against 4763 ships spread over some 300 activated user accounts from all over the world, and is continually expanding (See chart below).

The style and colours of the charts have also been improved and now offers a new dropdown menu that in addition to printing the chart, offers a choice of format for downloading. The formats available include: Portable Network Graphics (PNG) small, large or high definition (HD).

The current registered users of the BIMCO Shipping KPI, represent all fleet sizes ranging from the single ship setup to companies owning or managing more than 100 ships - see chart below.

BIMCO Shipping KPI users and others are encouraged to share their experiences in using the shipping-kpi.org as well as to provide comments, feedback and suggestions for improvements via the feedback form [https://demo.shipping-kpi.org/about/contact] or email: plr@bimco.org.

The BIMCO Shipping KPI Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) contains important information for both registered and potential users covering the following topics:

The Steering Group: has a direct reporting line to BIMCO's Executive Committee and is responsible for defining and adhering to the Shipping KPI's vision and mission as well as maintaining the overall business case for the system.

The Expert Group: reports to the steering group and is responsible for ensuring that the Shipping KPI System is continuously developed and fulfils both current and future needs of its users.

January112016

What’s available for users?

Published 2 years ago
by George Michail
[
Updated 11 January 2016 01:21:11 by
Chrysovalanto Kousetti
]

The BIMCO Shipping KPI website contains numerous sources of information. For instance: on the frontpage before you login, you have access to 4 links with both text guidance and images providing examples on user-ability and possibilities:

Discover! - The Shipping KPI System is a global tool for defining, measuring and reporting information on a ship's operational performance and this link provides an overview of the available key elements of the BIMCO Shipping KPI Standard and system.

Measure! - The Shipping KPI offers users the capability of inserting information about the performance of their ships and getting back a visual representation of how well or not the ship performed over a specific period. Users can maintain their performance data history and later compare this to their most recent or with other anonymous data provided by similar companies.

Benchmark! – Ship’s data are at the heart of the KPI system. With a solid understanding of each Performance Indicator (PI), users can add data for each of their ships, allowing them to get ship reports and benchmark ships and fleets. The Shipping-KPI system provides an easy way for users to benchmark and compare their fleets with the rest of the industry or specific subsets.

Integrate! - The Shipping-KPI Application Programming Interface (API) allows third party developers to incorporate Shipping-KPI data with their applications. Integrating your applications with the Shipping-KPI using our API, gives your own internal applications the ability to submit ship's data automatically as well as using any statistics available on the benchmark page. In short, you can submit ship information as simply as clicking a button, and view your own company system information that really matters to you. You can integrate information from a number of platforms including websites, desktop and mobile applications.

For further guidance and information please note that the BIMCO Shipping KPI Standard version 2.5 (all 158 pages) along with the Shipping KPI Quick Sheet, Version 2.4, the PI CheatSheet Version 2.4 and the Shipping KPI User Manual 1.5.2 can be downloaded for free.

Current users can access their dashboard directly from the frontpage via the textbox named “Dashboard” placed in the ‘moving’ tiles. The dashboard provides a quarterly ship data quality overview in terms of whether the entered data is:

valid

correct

suspicious

missing data

showing a calculation error

missing ships

marked as a draft

The dashboard also provides a quarterly overview of the rating of each of the 33 KPIs for the user’s fleet.Direct link to your Dashboard (when logged in).

Finally, all relevant pages on the www.shipping–kpi.org are now accessible by both smartphones and tablets.The costs involved as a BIMCO owner member to register as a new user of the BIMCO Shipping KPI System are:

The Steering Group: has a direct reporting line to BIMCO's Executive Committee and is responsible for defining and adhering the Shipping KPI's vision and mission as well as maintaining the overall business case for the system.

The Expert Group: reports to the Steering Group and is responsible for ensuring that the Shipping KPI System is continuously developed and fulfils both current and future needs of its users.

December082015

An update for users on developments to the BIMCO Shipping KPI System

Published 2 years ago
by George Michail
[
Updated 08 December 2015 10:27:04 by
George Michail
]

A major review and update on the BIMCO Shipping KPI website www.shipping-kpi.org has been completed and has resulted in a more user-friendly website. It has a more streamlined registration process for new users, mobile access, and updated information on BIMCO Shipping KPIs for potential new users.

Work on reviewing the definitions of the 64 individual Performance Indicators (PI) is ongoing for the BIMCO Shipping KPI Expert Group, and will carry on into 2016.

The privacy policies and terms of use for the BIMCO Shipping KPI will also be reviewed and updated during the course of 2016 to ensure user anonymity and confidentiality at a high level. However, the system still needs to allow for some control and evaluation of the users’ reported data to ensure an appropriate level of data quality.

More user feedback needed: The BIMCO Shipping KPI team still needs more users to provide feedback data in order to review essential changes and improvements for users.

The Steering Group: has a direct reporting line to BIMCO's Executive Committee and is responsible for defining and adhering the Shipping KPI's vision and mission as well as maintaining the overall business case for the system.

The Expert Group: reports to the Steering Group and is responsible for ensuring that the Shipping KPI System is continuously developed and fulfils both current and future needs of its users.

November022015

Shipping KPI member survey suggests best themes for future development

BIMCO's Shipping KPI team has found some common themes for improvements to the system from the results of the KPI survey that matches feedback from the recent Danish Maritime Fair.

The team met many visitors at their stand at Danish Maritime Days in Copenhagen last month. Everyone who visited the BIMCO stand was able to play around on the Shipping KPI demonstration site that was specifically developed for users.

Visitors were first given a quick introduction of the overall functionalities of the Shipping KPI tool. They were then able to test out some of the key aspects of the benchmarking tools. The demo site enabled visitors to test many of the unique functionalities of the tool – evaluating the many possibilities available for their clients and companies respectively.

Peter Lundahl Rasmussen, from BIMCO’s Shipping KPI team, said:

"It was great to be able to demonstrate the site to so many people in Copenhagen, and we will definitely use the demo site at other events to introduce Shipping KPI to new users."

"When we talked to people using the demo site at our stand, we noticed that their main interests in the system also reflected those revealed from the initial KPI Survey."

"We're now considering how we can increase the number of day-to-day business uses for the KPI System for the companies that use it."

The improvement measures for the Shipping KPI System identified in the user survey results included:

Is it easy to use?

75% found it very easy

Can users find relevant information?

Over 50% of respondents found it very or moderately easy to find information

What’s the main reason for signing up for a KPI account?

63% of respondents signed up for a KPI account because their company had decided to join.

What do people use the results for?

87.5% use the results from the benchmark tools for improving or monitor their ship or fleet performance

50% use the results for internal reporting procedures

More user feedback needed

The BIMCO Shipping KPI team still needs more users to provide feedback data - in order to review the essential changes and improvements that should be made to the tools and standard for users. Take the KPI Member Survey now.

Upcoming goals of the KPI Expert Group

To recap, the short-term goals of the KPI Expert Group's Terms of Reference (ToR) are:

Clean up unused and unnecessary benchmarks from the system

Simplify and clarify the definitions of PIs and KPIs

Extend possibilities for benchmarking

Share best practice in using the BIMCO Shipping KPI System

The Expert Group will establish a plan for the review of existing PIs and KPIs, including clear definitions of each PI, in the current system. The aim is to ensure use of the most correct and concise definitions possible, in order to avoid misunderstandings and minimise any subjective interpretations. Work on this has started and we will provide updates in future newsletters.

The Steering Group: has a direct reporting line to BIMCO's Executive Committee and is responsible for defining and adhering the Shipping KPI's vision and mission as well as maintaining the overall business case for the system.

The Expert Group: reports to the Steering Group and is responsible for ensuring that the Shipping KPI System is continuously developed and fulfils both current and future needs of its users.

October022015

The BIMCO Shipping KPI steering group agreed on new improvements to increase its usage capabilities

The first KPI Steering Group meeting held on 9September
saw the committee pursuing the task of defining the core purpose and value of
the BIMCO Shipping KPI System for the shipping industry. The group worked on
defining the vision and mission for the system based on the needs and
capabilities for users. Their goal was to identify the future of the system–
ensuring that it will be an ideal tool for benchmarking within the industry.

Following this meeting, BIMCO’s KPI Expert Group met on
23 September. The committee reviewed the details developed by the KPI Steering
Group and went to further define, explore and finalise the next steps for the
system.

The Steering Group has a direct reporting line to
BIMCO’s Executive Committee and is responsible for the definition of and
adherence to the BIMCO Shipping KPI vision and mission as well as the overall
BIMCO Shipping KPI business case.

The Expert Group has a direct reporting line to the
Steering Group and is responsible for ensuring that the Shipping KPI System is
continuously developed to fulfil both current and future needs of registered
users.

The short-term goals identified by the BIMCO Shipping KPI Expert Working
group are to:

Clean up unused and not needed benchmarks from the system

Simplify and clarify the definitions of PIs and KPIs

Extend possibilities for benchmarking

Share best practices in using the BIMCO Shipping KPI System

It was collectively agreed that a review of all 64 definitions of the
current PIs and KPIs was necessary. The aim is to ensure that the most correct
and concise definition possible is established and to remove any and all
possible misunderstandings and minimise any subjective interpretations of the
definitions when using the BIMCO Shipping KPI system.

In addition, the Expert Group will work on identifying
missing or unnecessary KPIs. This will be in addition to establishing and
implementing a proper data quality control of values by shipowners and anyone
who uses the KPI System.

In addition, the Shipping KPI website underwent adjustments in the form
of new developments and improved tools for users and potential users.

A more user friendly
design and interface

A more streamlined
registration process

Implementation of
mobile friendly pages

In order to share the Shipping KPI tool with new
customers, BIMCO will be present at the Danish
Maritime Fair (6-8 October) Users
will have the opportunity to test out the Shipping KPI system – by creating a
test profile and seeing live the benchmark capabilities available. It will also
provide users a first-hand chance to see for themselves how effective and
useful the benchmarking tools are for comparing anonymised live data of ships
and fleet.

August262015

Shipping KPI System - what's in it for owners, operators and managers?

BIMCO's Shipping KPI System aims to be an indispensable and trusted tool of performance measurement for all ship owners, operators and managers - without compromising their commercial data.

Key benefits of the Shipping KPI system:

it can boost performance of company, fleet and ship

it provides an efficient communication platform for ship operational performance

it can increase transparency requirements within the shipping world

Angus Frew, Secretary General of BIMCO, said "The shipping KPI system is unique and valuable to our industry - and we will ensure it continues to be run by industry for industry."

To ensure this happens two committees consisting of BIMCO and Shipping KPI members have been created. The groups will be meeting for the first time in September 2015 to discuss areas of developments and continued progression of the system for users.

Continued effort is crucial to improve the system and to make it relevant to the industry's needs. Regular updates by members on their fleet, company and ships will increase the importance of a good performance management system.

This in turn can translate into financial gains for companies by reducing fuel bills, ship and fleet operations. These are just some benefits the industry can gain from using an up to date system. Transparency on issues facing the industry will also drive policy and benchmark.

Shipping KPI Survey

The ultimate aim for the Shipping KPI system is to be the industry's go-to standard performance system. For a start please help us to complete a short survey on usage and improvement areas. This will help us to identify the key areas of needs and changes to be made on the system.

Danish Maritime Fair

BIMCO will be present at the Danish maritime fair on 6 to 8 October to showcase the Shipping KPI System. We will be giving away up to 500 free admission tickets. To receive the complimentary ticket please register and when at check out of the shopping cart for entrance ticket to Danish maritime fair please include the code BIMCO.

Shipping KPI System Maintenance - 21 August 2015

Published 2 years ago
by Chrysovalanto Kousetti

For the continued improvement of the Shipping KPI System we need to perform some essential maintenance. This will take place today after 17:00 GMT. Please be advised that the system might be down or slow during this time.

We kindly thank you for your patience.

July222015

BIMCO Shipping KPI monthly news - July 2015

Published 2 years ago
by Panagiotis Panagiotou

Since BIMCO took ownership of
the Shipping KPI System, providing shipowners and managers with an online tool
for comparing their ships' efficiency against the performance of the industry
as a whole and against sector averages, there has been a steady flow of registrations
from new users.

All BIMCO owner members, full
members of Intermanager, as well as owners and managers, who are not members of
the two organisations, are encouraged to sign up to the BIMCO Shipping KPI
System.

BIMCO is providing the Shipping
KPI System free of charge to its members (aside from a nominal set-up fee for
new users) as well as for full members of Inter-manager. Non-members, who
manage, operate or own ships, are subject both to a registration free and an
annual subscription.

The Shipping KPI System is currently
based on a standard of 64 different performance indicators to allow the most
specific and accurate comparison of ships – within each segment and more
broadly across the industry. All the
data collected is kept anonymously in order not to compromise any commercially
sensitive information.

BIMCO is working on establishing
both a Steering group and an Expert group to oversee and ensure that the
Shipping KPI system is continuously developed to fulfil both current and future
needs of registered users. This will entail not only the redesign of the
website: https://www.shipping-kpi.org but also an improvement of the registration
process and the identification of new, appropriate KPIs.

BIMCO takes ownership of unique Shipping KPI System

BIMCO
has today announced that it has taken ownership of the unique Shipping KPI System
that allows shipowners and managers to compare their ships' efficiency against
the performance of the industry and sector averages.

The
Shipping KPI System is unique because it is based
on a standard of 64 different performance indicators (such as ship unavailability
and number of environmental related deficiencies) to allow the most specific
and accurate comparison of ships – within each sector and more broadly across
the industry – that is currently available. The data collected is anonymised,
so it does not compromise commercially sensitive information.

The
KPI Standard covers:

health and safety management and performance

HR management performance

environmental performance

navigational safety performance

operational performance

security performance and

technical performance.

BIMCO
will take ownership of the system from today and has also announced that the
system's ongoing development will take into account the broader needs of
shipowners and operators, as well as managers, as part of the continued
development of the KPI standard.

BIMCO
will provide the Shipping KPI System free of charge to its members (aside from
a nominal set-up fee for new users), and will run the tool for the entire
industry on a not-for-profit basis, focusing on the value of the tool for the
industry.

Angus
Frew, Secretary General of BIMCO, said:

"The
shipping KPI system is unique and valuable to our industry – and we will ensure
it continues to be run by industry for industry."

"We
will seek to ensure that it becomes the indispensable and trusted tool of all
ship owners, operators and managers, allowing them to benchmark and monitor
their company and ship performance to drive improvements– without compromising
their commercial data."

Philippe
Louis Dreyfus, the new President of BIMCO said of the system:

"Accurate
benchmarking requires data – and the participation of many shipping companies
is crucial. BIMCO is uniquely placed to make this a success, by having the
largest membership of any international shipping association – and the trust
and recognition across the industry globally."

Initiated
in 2003, the system was developed by a cross-industry group of experts, led by
InterManager – the international trade association for the ship management
industry - and working with the Norwegian Research Council, consultants
Marintek, and maritime IT specialists SOFTImpact and overseen by an independent
KPI Association since 2011.

Kuba
Szymanski, Secretary General of InterManager and part of the core development
team for the system, said:

"The
KPI system was born out of a need for an international system to define,
measure and report on operational performance in an effort to respond to
society's increasing demands."

"I
am delighted to see that SOFTImpact is staying with the project and I have full
confidence that maintaining this continuity will ensure its continued success."

BIMCO is the world's largest international shipping association, with
2,300 members in around 130 countries.

Our members represent around 2/3 of the world's commercial fleet.

We provide a wide range of services to our global membership – which
includes shipowners, operators, managers, brokers and agents.

BIMCO's core objective is to facilitate the commercial operations of our
members by developing standard contracts and clauses, and providing quality
information, advice and education.

BIMCO promotes fair business practices, free trade and open access to
markets and we are a strong advocate for the harmonisation and standardisation
of all shipping related activity.

BIMCO actively promotes the application of globally agreed regulatory
instruments – we are accredited as a Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) with
all relevant United Nations agencies and other regulatory entities.

January222014

Digital Ship Hamburg: The Evolution of the KPI Study and Credible Benchmarking

The topic in Hamburg will be "The Evolution of the KPI Study and Credible Benchmarking" presented by Helle Gleie, Executive Director, KPI Association and Director, Sustainable Shipping Initiative (SSI) which will put our work and future development with KPIs in perspective of the future.

For further information on Shipping KPIs, or the two conferences, please contact Digital Ship or Helle Gleie.

January082014

KPI ASSOCIATION SET TO ENCOMPASS WHOLE MARITIME SECTOR

Published 4 years ago
by Chrysovalanto Kousetti

Announcement by KPI Association:

One independent Association which can collect, collate and correlate industry-specific data on behalf of the whole maritime sector is what the newly restructured KPI Association Limited (KPIA) aims to be.

The KPI Association Limited (KPIA), is a not-for-profit body which now oversees the industry-wide KPI Project, pioneered originally by ship management association InterManager. As it moves to represent the global shipping industry, KPIA is being restructured during 2014 to enable it to better serve the whole maritime sector and to embrace its new vision statement: "to promote safety at sea and to promote best practice in the global shipping industry".

Putting into action its key plans, KPIA is inviting influential industry organisations to join its KPI Trust which feeds in to the Board and is in the process of appointing leading maritime companies to the KPIA Board of Directors. In addition, KPIA’s future has been strengthened by the selection of an independent consultancy company, the Denmark-based ITOLEAD Consulting Group, to develop its global strategies.

In addition, KPIA is aiming to appoint a global network of regional KPIA-certified consultants to form the first point of contact for shipping companies, stakeholders and maritime organisations to help them understand how introducing key performance indicators can benefit their businesses. The certified consultants will also assist companies with the strategic selection and implementation of KPIs and in-house training etc.

Helle Gleie, KPIA Executive Director, explained: "Having a global network of consultants will enable KPIA to better advise the shipping industry in the use of performance indicators and statistics as well as giving us a vital point of contact to receive feedback and inspiration from the maritime sector."

The network of consultants will also liaise with a KPI Expert Group, made up of representatives from key maritime organisations and companies, who will have the responsibility to develop and adapt KPIs to meet emerging industry needs and expectations. In addition, leading industry academics will work with the project to identify relevant trends and correlations in the data which, alongside feedback from KPI users, will assist in boosting performance efficiency, maritime safety and meeting environmental standards.

These developments aim to help make the introduction of performance monitoring easier for the maritime sector. Helle Gleie said: "Many companies have struggled when deciding if, when or how to implement shipping KPIs, or have not known how to collect and share this information. Our new structure will enable us to assist with this challenge and spread understanding of how to gather this information to secure meaningful, future focused and commercially beneficial results."

The KPI Project provides performance measuring for shipping businesses across a wide range of agreed and clearly defined industry key performance indicators. The Project is accessed by customers through an international web-based system developed and maintained by Cyprus-based IT specialist SOFTimpact: www.shipping-kpi.org

Already the KPI Project is benefiting its subscribers, providing valuable benchmarking information to enhance their business performance and meet international standards and environmental targets. The system securely collates internal data from individual companies while enabling benchmarking against the wider industry. Data is currently being received from more than 2,000 vessels worldwide with more joining each month.

Looking forward, working with independent expert academia, KPIA plans to produce quarterly reports to make specific and relevant information based on its data available to shipping industry segments, as well as a wider industry audience, to enable commercial use of the information, to enhance best practice and to allow a greater and wider understanding of information.

Ms Gleie said: "KPIA is confident that the new structure can and will make a difference to its users and the industry as a whole. Only by working together during times of fast change and by sharing knowledge, the industry can develop responsibly and financially with the desired speed."

September102013

The Shipping-KPI Android app

The Shipping KPI development team has developed an Android mobile app for the users of the Shipping KPI allowing them to view their company's benchmarking information while on the go! The mobile app can be downloaded via the Android Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.softimpact.shipping_kpi_mobile. Once you login, you will gain access to the benchmarks and trends you normally have access to via the Benchmark page of the Shipping KPI system. Furthermore, you can use it as your quick reference to the Shipping KPI Book to answer any questions you may have about Performance Indicators while on your mobile. We are aiming to further extend the mobile app with more features so please let us know of any feedback you have and any suggestions.

The team is planning to soon also develop and iOS app for the iPhone and iPad users!

July182013

Shipping KPI short outage on the 17.7.2013

Due to unforeseen circumstances, the Shipping KPI system website was intermittently inaccessible yesterday, 17.7.2013, with confirmed outages at 15:27 - 16:32 CET and 21:21 - 21:56 CET. We are very sorry for any inconvenience that may have caused. The reason for this outage was due to issues faced by the Shipping KPI's DNS provider, "Network Solutions" (http://www.networksolutions.com/). The DNS provider is important for a website as it helps web browsers know where to find the Shipping KPI website when you try to access it via your browser. This made the Shipping KPI unavailable to you when tried to access it.

The issue Network Solution had was a Distributed Denial Of Service (DDOS) attack, which brought down a lot of their systems all over the world affecting many websites. There should be no concern regarding the Shipping KPI's data due to this attack since a DDOS attack is aimed at making a service unavailable rather than stealing information. From the announcement on the Network Solutions official facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/networksolutions) the issue should now be fixed and the Shipping KPI should be operating correctly.

Currently the Shipping KPI team is monitoring the situation and looking for options to mitigate this again in the future. Possible options include changing the DNS provider or using a backup DNS provider in case Network Solutions fails again.

We would appreciate it if you could check if the Shipping KPI website is now available from your location and give us your feedback. Please feel free to contact us for any further questions.

Regards

Your Shipping KPI team

April112013

A new benchmark

Published 5 years ago
by Chrysovalanto Kousetti

One of the most used and important pages of the Shipping KPI website is the Benchmark so we are continually trying to find better ways of presenting the data in the Shipping KPI system. In an effort to provide a more powerful and clear Benchmark page we have redesigned it to allow for better drilldown and bigger charts. There are more improvements underway to make it even more clean and simple to use.

Main new features:

Ability to drill down vertically. Now drilling down happens more consistently by staying on the same page. Clicking to drill down you get the next breakdown below, etc.

Ability to get a PI breakdown. Up to now our breakdown wasn't catering for breaking down by PI values. Now this option is available.

Ability to breakdown by value (where applicable) instead of just by rating.

Ability to benchmark across quarters. This means that you might want to compare performance of your fleet for this and previous quarter which you were not able to do up to now but now have the ability to do so. Furthermore you can select ranges of quarters rather than just single quarters!

A more relaxed and spacious view of the charts

We would love to hear your feedback on your thoughts about the new design and ways of improving it.

Regards

Your Shipping KPI team

June272012

New shipping-kpi version released!

Published 5 years ago
by Chrysovalanto Kousetti

As a response to your commitment to the project and for your continuous involvement the shipping-kpi team tries to continually improve the shipping-kpi with new features.

This month we are happy to announce the release of the new of the shipping-kpi built on an all new platform. Through the new platform we aim to improve the usability of the website, allow for more advanced statistics and analysis of the data gathered and launch the new Web API which allows you to integrate the shipping-kpi with your in-house software systems. The new platform widens our horizons in what we can add to the KPI with many ideas and improvements in our minds soon to be implemented and delivered to you. You will find several usability and visual changes but some new features you might find useful and are worth mentioning include:

The ability to benchmarking more than 2 fleets (up to 5 fleets)

The initial release of the shipping-kpi WebAPI

The improved highlighting in the My Vessels page. We differentiated the grey colour which up to know could mean two things. See the FAQ entry about colouring for more details.

We plan to implement a lot of the suggestions that came from you in upcoming releases, but we continue to ask for your feedback and suggestions on how we can make the shipping-kpi better, more usable and more useful to you.

We will keep you posted of new features coming.

Regards,

Your Shipping KPI team

April162012

Critical milestone of 1000 vessels reached!

Published 6 years ago
by Support SOFTimpact
[
Updated 16 April 2012 05:20:56 by
Support SOFTimpact
]

Congratulations to all participants!

Thanks to all of you and your commitment to the project, including Q1-2012 we have now the data of more than 1000 vessels submitted in the system! We appreciate the hard work of everyone involved in the project to achieve this critical milestone.

In this respect we would also like to quote Captain Kuba Szymanski, one of our directors within the KPI Association: “This is excellent progress for the project and indicates a great deal of industry involvement and support. By collating performance data from a wide range of shipping companies we are able to calculate key performance indicators to enable benchmarking against industry averages. The more information we have the more accurate these indicators are which will help to ensure the standards within our industry are kept high.”

So it's time to look forward and to set new targets. After assessing past progress and potential developments on the horizon, the KPI Project is now aiming to double that number and to include 2,000 vessels in its database by the end of 2012.

This is certainly an ambitious objective. But we are here to help you make that possible and have a few activities/enhancements planned to support this. The next in line is the redeployment of the shipping-kpi.org site based on a completely new platform. This new platform is in development since December 2011 and will be activated for your use beginning of May. In the first step the new platform is focused on improved stability/speed and will look & feel to you initially very much like the current system. But it also forms the base for several planned enhancements coming the following month, like:

improved usability,

advance statistics and analysis,

WEB API for integration with your backend SW

Etc.

Stay tuned and we will keep you posted on this channel ...

Regards

Your Shipping KPI team

January232012

KPI workshop at Digital Ship, Hamburg, on the 2nd of Feb

Published 6 years ago
by Support SOFTimpact
[
Updated 23 January 2012 02:20:54 by
Support SOFTimpact
]

We are happy to announce, that the KPI Association will hold together with Digital Ship on the 2nd of February in the afternoon a 3 hour workshop in regards to the KPI Project (history and objectives), the KPI Standard (concepts and and definitions) as well as to the usage of the KPI Benchmarking service. Details to be found at:

Introduction of graphical benchmarking facility

From the very beginning the system was setup to support the comparison of KPIs for bechmarking purposes. The mechanism was flexible enough to support the benchmark of individual vessels or whole fleets against the industry, but was limited in analysis and partially difficult to interpret.

We were working on a graphical benchmarking feature the past month and had enabled a sneak preview to this a week ago, so maybe some of you already saw it. We want to keep the site as simple as possible. So when we received positive user feedback on the new benchmarking, it was therefore decided that this new graphical benchmark will replace the old tabular style completely.

Like the old benchmark the feature is available via the "Benchmark" menu item at the top. The page is also quite interactive. You can:

Select the fleets for comparison on the left.

Choose the SPI you are interested in by clicking into the chart at the top.

Review the definition of that SPI, but also analyse a breakdown and trend at the bottom.

Similar you can select any KPI in the bottom chart to view a related drill down.

Have a look and come back to us! Do you like it? Is it easy to use? Do you prefer the old style back?

Talks to us,

Markus SchmitzManaging DirectorSOFTimpact Ltd.

September242011

Added support for business units

Published 6 years ago
by Support SOFTimpact
[
Updated 24 September 2011 03:11:23 by
Support SOFTimpact
]

Many shipping companies organize themselves into sub-entities and have a variety of names for this:

business units (BUs)

branches

country organizations

divisions

delivery centers

etc.

Today we rolled out a feature, which is intended to support this concept. It is completely optional and you can continue to use the application as before. But if you have a similar structure in your company, then:

The account manager can create BUs under the "My Company" menu

Users can get assigned one or more BUs in their user data

As soon as a company uses BUs, then a user will only have access to vessels within his/her BU

For admin purposes the account manager always has access to all vessels in all BU

A user with more than one BU assigned can choose the BU to look at in the "My Vessels" menu

When a vessel is added or imported, then a BU can be assigned

A user can benchmark vessels against his BU's fleet, his company's fleet or all vessels

Sounds complicated? Don't worry! As said before it is completely optional. You can start without BUs and add BUs later.

And like always in case of questions or need of help, dio not hesitate to contact us.

July212011

New design for benchmarking site

After an intensive week we completed the new design of the site in order to make the usage more appealing. The new design is quite a contrast to the previous look and sports a consistent modern blue theme to be used for all pages.

During testing we already received both positive as well as some critical feedback. We are therefore confident, that we are on the right track, but will continue to enhance the system based on your input.

The site supports all modern browsers, particularly:

Microsoft IE, starting from version 6 up to version 9

Firefox, Version 3.5 and above

Google Chrome, Version 8 and above

Safari, Version 5

Providing an interactive site suitable for a wide range of browsers is a challenge and we will need your help here. If you find your favorite browser is missing from the list above then tell us. If you use one of the above browsers, but have problems, then please come back to us. Write us the exact browser version and operating system used and we will try to reproduce the issue and fix it, if technical possible.

KPI repository merged with benchmarking backend

Today we merged the website holding the KPI repository/wiki (ie. the description of the KPI standard) with the back-end system used for collecting and benchmarking KPI data.

We actually had this in mind for while, simply to reduce the work of maintaining two systems. Now rightly so our users were complaining in the past about the responsiveness of the old repository, so it was decided to give this issue priority.

Our objectives are:

A single point of access for all Shipping KPI related information and tools

Maintain consistency between the published standard and the definitions used for benchmarking

Full technical control to resolve stability and performance issues

In case you have any issues with the new site or suspect any discrepancies between the information of the old repository or the new system, please do not hesitate to contact us.

December282010

Migration of the KPI System to the amazon cloud

Published 7 years ago
by Markus Schmitz
[
Updated 16 August 2013 08:35:48 by
Support SOFTimpact
]

As of today a test instance of the KPI System is running on the cloud service provided by Amazon, called EC2 (Eclastic Cloud Computing). Migration proofed straight forward and using EC2 we have now a base to scale the KPI System up to the expected needs of our users.

Additionally EC2 represents a high availability environment with miscellaneous fail over mechanisms.

November222010

Prototype of the KPI System at InterManager AGM

Published 7 years ago
by Markus Schmitz
[
Updated 16 August 2013 08:36:21 by
Support SOFTimpact
]

SOFTimpact presented the first prototype of the KPI System at the annual general meeting of InterManager, the international ship managers association.

Even though the service is at an very early stage and not publicly available yet, feedback was positive and members esquired about general availability. The KPI System project team will work in the next couple of weeks towards that milestone, expected public preview early 2011.

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